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Virtual optical drives are always read-only on V5R2. The ability to write to one comes in V5R3, AFAIK.

At 08:42 AM 8/11/2005, you wrote:

Been awhile since I played with saving to optical.  Real optical media was
slow as a one legged dog compared to tape (much to my surprise) and didn't
hold hardly anything compared to your average tape cartridge.

But instead of real optical, what about virtual optical?  On a V5R2
machine, or higher, try these steps:
MD DIR('/vrtopt')
CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(VRTOPT) DIR('/vrtopt')
CRTDEVOPT DEVD(VRTOPT) RSRCNAME(*VRT) ONLINE(*NO)
VRYCFG CFGOBJ(VRTOPT) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STATUS(*ON)
ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(VRTOPT) FROMFILE('/vrtopt/opt_1.bin') TOFILE(*fromfile)
(crash and burn....  You've got to create the bin file first.  Oh well,
nice thought.)

I guess virtual optical is meant to be a read only device.  Hope someone
can prove me wrong.

Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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